Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-29

squandef on its favorites has come to be
question for the ridicule of the scoffer, and
a faithful adherence to the constitution is re-
garded as the pitiful drivel of the end in
which the constitution was adopted, and I'M
worthy of the craftsmanship century later.
ALL this is increased by the inherent evils of
indirect taxation. The taxpayer, uncon-
scious of the burdens it imposes, holds to a
slack responsibility his representatives for
proper expenditures.
Third-But indirect taxation has othsr
fearful consequences, as it is used for col
lateral object. IF used for revenue when the
States are confined to direct taxation it
makes all revenues that are effectual through
money more popular by means of Federal
taxation, because the taxpayer is painfully
sensible of the drain upon him if done by
State taxation. The people are by delu-
sion ensnared into a transfer of the reserved
powers of the States to the Federal govern
ment, because men think it costs them more
for the State than for Congress to do what it
is the States local duty to do. This is not
fanciful picture, but practical reality.
When individual taxation is held not for
revenue only, but to foster privileged inter
ests; when commerce is regulated, not
as it was designed by the
fathers of a century ago, to force
foreign nations into free trade
with us and unrestrained navigation laws,
but to destroy free commerce and create
class to foster bounties to another, and real-
ICES the contamination of all despotisms which
have at all fostered the favored few by ex-
acting an exhaustive tribute from the
masses.
Fourth-The war and its supposed ne
cessities, the loose methods of Interpretation
and practice which came into use in trouD
lous times in every country, the attractions 10
the masses of national government with a
splendor that rivals that of other nations OF
the world, to which easy travel has led too
many of our people to aspire, the luxury be-
gotten by our miraculous increase OF
wealth and the ignorance of our
young men of the history of the
constitution built by our fathers with their
ideas of primitive and republican simplicity
all these conduce to an Indifference OF the
necessity of preserving in all its integrity
the equilibrium between the delegated ana
reserved authority, between the powers OF
Capitalization and the powers OF the States.
Fifth-One other danger arises from the
peryersion of the frame of the.executlve de-
partment and of its powers of patronage. 1t
was designed that select body of electors
in each State should separately indicate their
choice of President; and then in case of
the States not being united IN a
majority of electors on the same
person, that the States through the
House of Representatives should elect. Ma
tional conventions of partisan power now
dictate the person to obedient electors and
the eventual power of election by States is
thus defeated This makes the choice of
President by municipal majority, not by
the independent will of the several States
through their electors, nor eventually by the
States with co-equal rights of suffrage. This
has practically changed the election system
for the presidency. The cabal and intrigue
feared in the federal convention from an
election by Congress are exaggerated in the
corrupt combinations of a national conVen
ton, composed largely of office seekers whose
greed for the spoils too often is
the ruin of their Jealous patriotism
Then the platform for the executive candi-
date centralizes public sentiment as topublic
measures, and practically controls the action
in both houses of Congress, and the Presi
dent thus becomes the representative center
of all opinion and the index of all political
action. This system thus tends to centralize
the government in the executive and tends tc
an elective monopoly. And then patronage
| is claimed of the President by the spoilsmen
who shouted him to Office. Craftsmanship il
| thus made trade of and, civil service be
comes corrupt system of remuneration anc
punishment for the friends and enemies OF
the executive. These evils connected with
the executive Office and the patronage at
tached to it call for the earnest efforts OF
patriotism to rescue the government from the
rottenness of corruption more dangerous te
liberty than the anarchy of disunion.
Sixth-New States in territorial condition
the proteges of Congress, do not for years
overcome their sense of subordination or rise
to the self-consciousness of the origina
fountain of authority out of which the ole
States delegated powers to the federal gov
eminent. The theoretio relation of consti
tutional coequality in this regard with the
old States meets with practical doubt, if NO
| denial, in the self consciousness of the new
49, !, loroo To
| reserved rights of Connecticut and Virgini.
| instead of elevating the statehood in Nevad'
| and Colorado.
Our ship of State must be steered will
| steady helm between the Scylla of anarchy
and the Charybdis of centralism-dissolutio
and despotism. In medic tutissimus ibis
By the law of our political life, the decree O.
our fathers in 1887, and of all the American
peoples in 1887, should be proclaimed al
fixed, final and unalterable. The States can
| not destroy the Union; the Union must no
destroy the States; liberty and Union, unde!
| this magma charta of the United States, mus
he one and inseparable, now and forever!
| would in the venerable name of Virginia ad
jure the old and the young men of Connect
cut, these sons of Yale, some with matureG
fame, and others aspirants for lifes honors
to join with the old and young men o.
that once powerful commonwealth, now rem
in twain and wasted and worn by tn
| misfortunes of war, in one solemn vow, a
solemn as when the delegates of the TIVE
States on the 18th of September, 1887, sign
ed the federal bond; that we will defend
and uphold this constitution in all the integ
rity of its granted powers, and IN the full
autonomy of the States comprising thu
Union, with our minds, our hearts, ou1
lives, as our only assurance of peace among
the States and of peace with the world; a
our guaranty of free thought, free conscience
free commerce, FREQ men, and free contin
| ent. And as the prophetic eye of the fathe
of American science greeted it in its rising OF
that memorable day, SO, now in its zenitl
and power, let US VOW to perpetuate it, al
the hope Of mankind in every CLINE, and te
Q r. generations, as the true and everlasting
~nent of liberty enlightening the world